#but to be back sounds so exciting aaaa hope u enjoy all the 2016-2023 content 🎉🎉

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what is the post baking universe 😭 i disapheared from 2016-2023

hii welcome back ! so the post baking universe was a term coined by dan himself after the monster pops vid dropped on halloween 2016, cause the Energy during the monster pops vid felt so Different and revolutionary at the time! like the humour was dirtier, and phil's "innocent" persona was shattered a bit more. and in dan's words in the liveshow the day after, it was a "hot sexual mess":

"Yes questionable sense of humor, I apologize for that, I don't know why that happened. It’s- we didn't plan it, we didn't think about what we were doing, we just turned on the camera and it happened. So you think it was a hot sexual mess, I'm genuinely sorry, I don't know what happened, we just did it and it happened to be quite innuendo laden."

and after the vid, there was more of a shift towards this dirtier sense of humour! esp considering this was near the end of tatinof where they bid goodbye to their old "lions and llamas" branding, this was like the beginning of a new era. so whenever they'd make a more scandalous joke in the months following, dan would say "we're in a post baking universe" ! like he mentions it in "the impossible quiz #3" and "bubble bobble" and the following tweet:

#and the boncas were like three weeks later too so like. whether that is correlated is up to interpretation sdjfs #but to be back sounds so exciting aaaa hope u enjoy all the 2016-2023 content 🎉🎉 #also srry for the wait i rlly had to gather the sources for this and like. i could be wrong tbh sdjfs #and couldn't make gifs cause. lack of time. but a post baking universe gifset coming halloween 2024 who knows